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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88818	The wolf stript of his sheeps clothing or The antichristian clergy-man turn'd right side outwards. Wherein is briefly discovered and layd open their subtile and wicked wayes and practises to deceive and destroy not only private people, or particular societies, but whole nation and kingdoms, and all under the plausible vizzard of reformation, church-government, punishing of hereticks and sectaries. / By R. Lavvrance Marshal General.	Lawrence, Richard, d. 1684.	1647 (1647)	Wing L682; Thomason E386_10; ESTC R201479	19,259	30

destroying and ruinating many thousands of good Christians the whole Histories of Christendom being but a brief story of the bloody wicked barbarous practises of these blood-thirsty Clergy-men there would be no end if I should come to particulars whole Volumns not containing them But thou mayest object and say We know the Romish-Clergy are bloody deceivers cruel persecuters of good Christians We have heard often of the Spanish Inquisition and the bloody massacre in France c. But what is this to us we have had a Learned Pious Clergy in England for many yeers Let me intreat thee to consider a little what pious men they have been where shall we begin in Henry the eights time or in Queen Maries dayes For till those dayes they were all as Romish as the other are now Let me intreat thee to peruse well the Chronicles of England Scotland and Ireland Master Fox his Books of the Acts and Monuments of the Church his History of Martyrs and when thou hast done then tell me whether the Clergy of England hath not been more wicked bloody and cruel then all the Clergy of Christendom besides How many thousands of precious Christians have had their blood spilt and been put to cruel torments such as ye hardly read of in any other story by our cruel bloody English Clergy-men And this is chiefly observable in them wherein they have exceeded all others That they have not onely been as Popish superstitious and cruel as others in other Kingdoms when the stream hath run that way but that they were never true to their own principles wherein they have been alwayes a shame to their cloth for as their Popish Superstition and Idolatry hath declared them to be not Christians but Antichristians so their turning like the weather-cock with all windes hath declared them unworthy cowardly people as they are meet natural men Thus ye shall finde them in Henry the eights dayes when the Kingdom was under the height of Popery they were all cruel Papists when the King denied the Popes supremacy and went about to demolish the Abbeys and Monasteries which they all knew was not out of any pious zeal he had for Reformation but out of wrath pride and coveteousness yet how did they all fide with him except the Cardinal and the poor Fryers and Monks that were all undone and beggered by it Then in the dayes of Edward the sixt by reason of the Kings pious disposi●ion though young they feared a turn and presently a great part of them fell a Preaching against some particular points of Popery and such as defended them did as if they had not greatly cared what Religion they were on but in the mean time the Lord Protector with several others were resolved to reform the Church and presently abolished the Mass with most of the Popish Service and caused the Common-Prayer Book to be read in English to the people and presently all the Clergy were zealous Protestants great Common-Prayer Book men except some four or five of their chief Bishops as Gardiner Bonner Toustal and Day and about three or four yeers after at the most when Queen Mary was made Queen of England they presently all turned about again except such another number as Cranmer Rogers Hooper Ferrer Ridley and Latimer and grew more cruel throughout the whole Kingdom against the poor Saints then ever they were Bonner being then Bishop of London did drive the very same trade Master Edwards is about now for if ye observe it the first officer Antichrist entertains when he is begining a new designe is a good Scout-master General to keep a correspondency with all the rest of the wicked Clergy spred abroad over the Kingdom as ye may see by those many wicked Letters and accusations which daily he received from all parts of the Kingdom against one poor man or other so that friends durst not talk together for fear some words should slip and Bonner should come to hear of it which was the bloodiest minded man that is upon record for persecuting the poor Saints and inventing punishment for them or I hope we ever shall hear of if God keep but Master Edwards and his ungrateful bloody faction out of authority And in this rage did those wolves continue devouring the poor sheep of Christ all the dayes of Queen Mary and how many thousands of good Christians were destroyed and banished by them would make a Jews heart bleed to consider off and all those suffered by them as evil doers as Heretikes and Schismatikes and themselves then as they do now assumed the name of Christs Ministers and Ambassadors Then after Queen Mary was dead and Queen Elizabeth swayed the Scepter in six moneths the whole tribe of them except some few of their Bishops which had gotten money enough to live upon any where and so did not care much for their trade turned quite about again and all turned Protestants in which shape and under which visage they have continued to the beginning of this Parliament who then presently discovered to the whole Kingdom that they had been as deceitful and as cruel in this shape as ever they had been in the former that they had onely got on sheeps clothing but were all inwardly ravening wolves they had got a trick to call all their Antichristian practises and Popish ceremonies the Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England and all their Antichristian proud Prelates with the rest of their superstitious dumb Priests must be called the Bishops Stewards and Ministers of Jesus Christ and all the true worshippers of God in the Kingdom they were all scattered abroad silenced and persecuted under the name of Heretikes and Schismatikes c. Every day growing worse then other bringing in some new invented Popish ceremony or other to the end they might have further advantage against such as could not submit to them sure it will be needless for me to give you any particulars of their insolent proud wicked carriage in our times it must needs be fresh in your memory their incroachments upon the Civil power their oppressions by their wicked Courts in all parts of this Kingdom their superstition and idolatry which they were every day inventing and bringing into the Church their insolency and pride in setting themselves up with if not above the Nobility of the Kingdom their wicked and damnable plots tending to the ruine of both Church and State doth not all the blood both of England and Ireland stand upon the stone of these bloody men have not they been the great fomenters of this bloody war amongst us by stirring up the spirits of wicked cruel men against the poor Saints of God in the three Kingdoms and was there ever any wicked plot discovered either against Church or State but these men have had a great hand in it if not the chief contrivers of it If a Deputy of Ireland be in fault ye may be sure of an Archbishop of Canterbury How did they flock to the Kings